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sleet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sleet/sliːt/

▶noun rain containing some ice, or snow melting as it falls.

■ US a thin coating of ice formed by sleet or rain freezing on coming into contact with a cold surface.

▶verb (it sleets, it is sleeting, etc.) sleet falls.

– derivatives
sleety adjective.

– origin ME: of Gmc origin.

'sleet' also found in these Oxford entries:

precipitation - squall

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